· Private foundation
Global Special Operations Forces Foundation Corporation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 54% of Global Special Operations Forces Foundation Corporation’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k22 grants · $70k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $30k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Special Operations Warrior Foundation | $15,000 |
| Special Forces Foundation | $15,000 |
| Task Force Dagger | $9,167 |
| Air Commando Association | $7,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,032 |
| North Carolina Community Foundation | $5,000 |
| The Honor Foundation | $5,000 |
| Warrior Ethos | $3,500 |
| SealKids | $2,981 |
| The Green Beret Foundation | $2,976 |
| AllTru Inc | $2,967 |
| Military Special Operations Family Collaborative | $2,964 |
| Special Operators Transition Foundation | $2,953 |
| Gallant Few | $2,935 |
| Marine Raider Foundation | $2,935 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY24–25, $17k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
7 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 16 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 39% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $58k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- SOSPECIAL OPERATIONS WARRIOR FOUNDATION2× · 2024–2025 · $30k · revenue 0%
- THTHE HONOR FOUNDATION INC2× · 2024–2025 · $10k · revenue +18%
- ACAIR COMMANDO ASSOCIATION INC2× · 2024–2025 · $8k · revenue 0%
Funded once
- VIVarious Individual US Military Membone grant, 2023 · $101k
- VHVALOR & HONOR OUTDOORSone grant, 2024 · $9k · revenue 0%
- PFParkman Foundation Incone grant, 2024 · $4k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Special ops survivors advances the mission "to embrace and empower surviving spouses of fallen special operations heroes to build healthy post-loss futures as they transition and rebuild their new lives." the foundation provides programs…
The Special Operations Fund (the "Fund") is a nonprofit organization that provides educational grants and support to the families of special mission unit warriors killed in action, killed in training, died in the line of duty, suicide, and…
The purpose of the special forces scholarship fund (sfsf) is to award merit based post secondary educational scholarships to the daughters and sons of current and veteran special forces soldiers.
Our mission is to honor the legacy of fallen us special operations forces by enhancing the quality of life for special ops veterans and their families. (continued on schedule o).
The peaceful warrior foundation is a non-profit organization with the aim of connecting our nation's warriors with the support and care they need.at peaceful warrior we strive to help our active-duty operators & veterans be at their very…
NextOp helps place talented enlisted service members and veterans into civilian careers through highly individualized preparation and an array of programming.
Services for veterans
Provide financial support for veterans.
The Special Operations Association Foundation supports Special Operations veterans and active-duty members, along with their families and survivors. The goals are to support the educational awards program, provide emotional support to…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Special Operations Warrior Foundation and the most unlike its peers is The Catalyst. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 12 years old; the field is 12. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 27% startups (under 5 years old) — 14% of your grantees by number, and just 10% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 17% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
21 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 21 of the 31 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds SPECIAL OPERATIONS WARRIOR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL FORCES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE HONOR FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds VALOR & HONOR OUTDOORS ↗
- Who funds AIR COMMANDO ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds Warriors Ethos Inc ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GREEN BERET FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SEALKIDS ↗
- Who funds ALLTRU INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds MILITARY SPECIAL OPERATIONS FAMILY COLLABORATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OPERATORS TRANSITION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GALLANTFEW INC ↗
- Who funds MARINE RAIDER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MEMORIAL VALOR FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE SPECIAL FORCES CHARITABLE TRUST ↗
- Who funds OPERATION HEALING FORCES INC ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds The Catalyst ↗
- Who funds FISHER HOUSE OF THE EMERALD COAST INC ↗
- Who funds HONOR THE PROMISE ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
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Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Global Special Operations Forces Foundation Corporation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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